CNR

Mothers & Sisters

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment
03644 2016-07-06 OHara Devine close+

The figure in the centre of the mural above is Peggy O’Hara, mother of INLA hunger striker Patsy O’Hara, who remained active in socialist and republican circles and stood in the assembly elections in 2007 as an independent. She died in 2015 and was given a paramilitary funeral, including a volley of shots fired over the coffin. (For a description, and video, see this Derry Journal article.) The female above Mickey Devine (in the bottom right) is his sister Margaret, from whose house his coffin processed after his death in 1981. (See the plaque in Breaking The Chains.) The girl on the left is pointing towards another mural, a dove of peace. (See Network.)

03643 2016-07-06 OHara Devine+

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2016 Extramural Activity
X03644 X03643 rossville st

Le Jeu Avant Tout

Extramural Activity1 Comment
03577 2016-06-30 Frank Gillen board+

The board above, on the Frank Gillen Centre, which is in the nationalist Divis area of the lower Falls, shows the emblems not only of Cliftonville and local team Immaculata, but also the Protestand-supported Glentoran and Linfield. The flags on the building (shown below), for the Euro 2016 championships, likewise include the Northern Ireland banner along with the Irish Tricolour and the flags of the other nations.

03578 2016-06-30 Frank Gillen flags+

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2016 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03577 X03578 cullingtree rd our divis our youth our future painted by sonnie boyce pierce atherton robert mcateer fra tairnan mcgreevy declan o’neill ricky quinn

The Heart Of Our Community

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment
03557 2016-06-23 ArdEoin Kickams border+

A border of Celtic knot-work and the shields of the four provinces has been added to the Ard Eoın Kickhams mural at the top of Havana Way. (For the previous version, see The Heart Of Our Community.)

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2016 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03557

RUC Beware

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment
03585 2016-06-30 RUC Beware+

In a throw-back to earlier times (the RUC changed to the PSNI in 2001), a volunteer armed with a Kalashnikov greets visitors to the area: “Welcome to the Bogside. IRA. RUC beware.”

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2016 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03585 barrack st

Free Tony Taylor

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Free Tony Taylor”, “End internment” – identical to the mural in Ardoyne, though without the “Cogús”. On the RNU “notice-board” on Northumberland Street.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2016 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04889

Culann’s Hound

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment
03632 2016-07-05 Cu Chulainn+

“Cú Chulaınn” is Irish for “Culann’s Hound” after the boy Setanta killed the smith’s hound and promised to take its place until another one was raised. In one version of the legend, Setanta kills the original hound by driving a slıotar (hurley ball) down its throat – hence the hero is shown here holding a camán (hurley stick) rather than a sword. In the original picture on which this mural is based, the hero is not Cú Chulaınn but Jim Fitzpatrick’s vision of Nuada Silverarm and he carries a sword.

On the right hand side, Tuan the hawk/eagle/sea-raven bears witness to all of Irish history.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2016 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03632 central drive

Non-Cooperative Prisoners

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment
03635 2016-07-05 RNU Cogus l+

Hugh Rooney on the blanket in 1981 is one side of this RNU/Cogús board in the Bogside, Derry. The other shows a helmeted guard beating a prisoner. Here is BBC video of Rooney and Freddie Toal in their cell.

03636 2016-07-05 RNU Cogus r+

02798 2015-08-22 RNUCogusDerry+

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03635 X03636 X02798 rossville st

Breaking The Chains

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment
03624 2016-07-04 Mickey Devine+

This new full-size mural to INLA hunger striker Mickey Devine replaces a smaller black-and-white board (for which see Waked & Buried).

03625 2016-07-04 Mickey Devine slant+

03621 2016-07-04 Oglach Mickey Devine+

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2016 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03624 X03625 X03621 Rathkeele Way In proud and loving memory of Óglach Mickey Devine. Died 20th August 1981 in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh after 60 days on hunger-strike. Mickey was waked and buried from this house, the family home of his sister Margaret. Also died 30th March 2005.

Political Dissent Is Not A Crime!

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment
03499 2016-06-03 Beechm End Internment Now+

IRPWA (Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association) stencil. Below is a wide shot showing all three of recent pieces in Beechmount (prior to the destruction of the one on the right): No Steps Backward | Political Dissent Is Not A Crime! | The Butcher’s Apron.

03502 2016-06-03 Beechm w2+

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2016 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03499 X03502 beechmount ave

No Steps Backward

Extramural Activity1 Comment
03498 2016-06-03 Beechm Drumm CnamBan+

“We must take no steps backward, our steps must be onward. If we don’t, the martyrs that died for you, for me, for this country … will haunt us forever” — the words of Máıre Drumm from an anti-internment rally in Dunville Park on 10th August, 1975 (RN) are featured against a backdrop of female volunteers in Cumann Na mBan wearing berets and holding rifles.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2016 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03498 beechmount ave ww.irpwa.com